Malaysian Government To Resume Search For Missing Flight MH370

The plane vanished on March 8, 2014, on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

Two Australian women who lost their husbands on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 say they are excited to hear the search might resume.

Malaysia could announce as early as this week it will restart the search, The West Australian reported on Tuesday.

However Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said he had received proposals from three companies - including Dutch firm Fugro and an unidentified Malaysian company - but no decision had been made yet.

The plane vanished on March 8, 2014, on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

The search for the aircraft was suspended in January, much to the anguish of distraught relatives.

Its disappearance is one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries, and sparked the largest ever search costing about $200 million.

Melbourne woman Jennifer Chong, whose husband and the father of her two sons Chong Ling Tan was on the flight, said she and other relatives had been working for the search to be re-started.

At the time it was suspended, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau had released findings from international and CSIRO scientists stating that they had identified a smaller 25,000sq km area with "a high probability" that it contained the aircraft.